Saturn's aurora in the January 2004 events

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1649-1663

  Belenkaya, E S ^a   Cowley, S W H ^b   Alexeev, I I ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA; SATURN; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 33751084584     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-1649-2006     Document Type: Article

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